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Pepsi Smartly Shifting Ad Dollars Online
As we approach the New Year, we are also approaching an important date in the world of football, Super Bowl XLIV. Next year’s Super Bowl is just about six...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! November search term biggest movers are here!
What terms drove the greatest query volume spike? Did the holiday season affect consumer search terms? Let’s take a look at some of the fastest growing terms...
Retailers Don’t Take A Holiday
The Compete Retail 200 Report contains monthly data on eCommerce categories and sites, similar to the preview data provided here. If you would like to be added to...
Why Men Won’t Have to Ask For Directions Ever Again
Compete will be at CES 2010 sharing additional and complementary data to what you’ll read below. If you would like to set up a meeting with Compete to discuss,...
Amazon in December – 2009 vs 2008
Last year, Compete published an analysis of both Amazon and of 10 retailers heading into December. We thought it was time for an update. Like last time, we were...
The App War is Brewing: What Google’s Nexus One Really Means
Compete will be at CES 2010 sharing additional and complementary data to what you’ll read below. If you would like to set up a meeting with Compete to discuss,...
Start-up Watch: Typepad vs. Tumblr
Back in November, Typepad announced that they would be launching their own microblogging service called Typepad Micro. What is microblogging? The term generally...
Apple, Lala, and the Growth of Streaming Content
A couple months ago, my mp3 player developed an unhealthy obsession with Journey’s "Don’t Stop Believing". It would turn on, regardless...
November Search Market Share Update: Not quite the usual story
November is an odd time of the year. In much of the US it’s starting to get cold and dreary, there tends to be more rain at least in the New England area,...
Zhu-Zhu Pets: 2009′s Hottest Toy for the Holidays
Every holiday season, the retail world eagerly anticipates that year’s "it toy," the one item that sends parents on fruitless searches to every...
